Deputies and senators agreed on Wednesday, during a joint joint commission (CMP), a compromise version of the bill of the Renaissance deputy Frédéric Descrozaille that experimentally modifies the commercial relations between suppliers and distributors.
“With this text, deputies and senators agree to rebalance the negotiations between large retailers and suppliers,” tweeted Guillaume Kasbarian, Renaissance Chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee.
It intends in particular to fill the “legal vagueness” in case of failure of the annual commercial negotiation (scheduled from December 1 to March 1 for consumer products).
Experimental development
On this point, senators and deputies “agreed on a new version,” the Senate Economic Affairs Committee said in a press release.
From now on, on an experimental basis, if the annual trade negotiation has failed, the supplier will have the option to stop deliveries if the price during the notice is considered too low, or apply a “classic” break notice, which should have into account the conditions of the market economy.
The text resulting from the CMP also retains several modifications made by the senators, among them: the framework for the promotions of non-food products; the non-negotiability of agricultural raw materials in products sold under their own brand; the shortening from 2026 to 2025 of the extension of the experiment to supervise the loss sales threshold, which expires in April, and the exclusion of the fruit and vegetable sector from this last device.
For Anne-Catherine Loisier, centrist Senate rapporteur, the agreement reached “testifies to the shared observation that the imbalance in the balance of power in trade negotiations leads to unacceptable deviations, which must be corrected.”
“Parliament is compelled to intervene, not for pleasure, but because the players engage in a game of ‘lying poker’ that is often detrimental to consumers, farmers and SMEs,” he adds.
Source: BFM TV
